Houston, Delaware, USA

For quite some time now owner Barney Vincelette has been working hard to try to get his Futuro listed on the National Register of Historic Places and that bid recently took a huge jump forward as Delaware’s Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs recently voted to approve a nomination which now heads to the National Park Service in Washington D.C. for final consideration.

Local CBS affiliate WBOC carried a story on their news broadcast 101823. More details and video of the news story can b

Owner Barney Vincelette recently sent us the two photos below; the first is a nice recent shot of his Futuro and the second is a view of an interesting mural that forms a part of the interior decor.

Several of the US Futuros are among the most poorly maintained examples; Greenwich, Royse City (despite its relatively recent «facelift») and Media come to mind. At the other end of the scale is Barney Vincelette’s home for almost 40 years, the Houston Futuro.

In a recent email Barney let us know that in April 2015 he submitted his Futuro for consideration for the National Register of Historic Places. The register’s website describes itself as:

«… the official list of the Nation’s historic

On 120615 British TV station Channel 4 aired a show titled the World’s Weirdest Homes. The show, hosted by architectural designer Charlie Luxton, was described on the stations website as being a countdown of:

«… the world’s 20 weirdest, most fascinating and jaw-dropping homes …»

The Futuro House made this countdown at #10 and features in a three minute section of the show (starting at 33:55). While there is a little Futuro history, a few vintage photos and a little vintage footage the prim

On 062315 CapeGazette.com published an article by Ron MacArthur titled 2015: It’s Still A Space Oddity. The article was based on conversations with Joe Hudson who has several ties to the Futuro House and Richard Garrett who currently rents the Milton Futuro.

Joe Hudson’s ties to Futuro include being the owner and operator of New Dimensions Of Delaware Inc., a Futuro distributor «back in the day», owning the Milton Futuro and selling the Houston Futuro to longtime owner and resident Barney Vince

We have never seen many photos of this Futuro but this week owner Barney Vincelette kindly sent us this set of photos taken recently by Bob Pavlik, an architecture professor from Oklahoma University who is traveling the USA and studying Futuros. Our thanks to both Barney & Bob for sharing this great set of photos.

Barney Vincelette recently sent us an email with some clarification on the history of the (demolished) Broadkill Beach Futuro. That email also contained a couple of little «nuggets» relating to the history of Barney’s Futuro.

It seems that before Barney purchased his Futuro from Joe Hudson in 1977 it had previously spent time on display in 5 Points in Lewes, DE; at that time it was actually painted blue as was the Milton Futuro which was at that time also on Broadkill Beach. The original blue o

Barney Vincelette, longtime owner and resident of this Futuro House, posted a very interesting article on Nest-Mag.com on 042214. The article was posted under the heading «Living in a Matti Suuronen Futuro House» and in it Barney recounts some of the history of his interest in the Futuro House and how it was that he came to reside in one. Rather than try to paraphrase Barney we think it makes more sense to read Barney’s own words which can be found here. Check it out!

The other day Barney Vincelette kindly shared with us this somewhat unique and extremely humorous photo of his home. The photo is displayed here with Barney’s permission. In the email Barney sent he also recounted a little of the background to the sign that features prominently in the photo and, since we believe the best and most faithful recounting of any story is always when the story is told in the words of the protagonist, we thought it most appropriate to tell the story using Barney’s own w

Barney Vincelette can be considered, at least by any reasonable standards, anything but «ordinary». An agnostic free thinker who grew up in the world of the 50’s and 60’s Vincelette has been institutionalized, spent time in the Air Force (and in Vietnam), worked odd jobs, earned two MS degrees and then followed those with a PhD in mathematical physics, shocked with surrealistic (and to some obscene) art and authored a couple of bittingly satirical books; «The Autistic Comedy» and «The Night of G